Sketch-a-lot

Character Design – sketch to vector

FilipZ — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:55:09 +0000

Just some fun with a rhino-like creature running awkwardly… Sketch traced in photoshop and then shamelessly auto-traced in illustrator. I really like how some of the strokes turned out but some are just too obviously unprofessional. I will hand trace it, when time allows. Tonight it’s the figure drawing at in Portobello. Great exercise and different type of creature, I think…

Trouble in Paradise – final

FilipZ — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 23:02:31 +0000

Seemingly nothing changed but lookie-lookie – added nice signature at the bottom. Decided not to overwork it, so just made small touches and off it goes. I am 70% happy with it, maybe I’ll like it more when I take a break from it. Anyhow, here it is. Cheers.

Trouble in Paradise – colours added

FilipZ — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:14:49 +0000

The (not yet) finished piece. Just working on the final touches. More gore and more shine. Going to figure drawing classes tomorrow in Portobelo. So looking forward to brush up on traditional drawing…

Trouble in Paradise – B&W

FilipZ — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 09:26:00 +0000

Here’s a little gore I have been tackling recently. Full – coloured version will be up soon, when I’ve finished the extra rendering I have been putting in. I am really looking forward to have it as a wallpaper on my screen at work. The title comes from the initial idea of alternative version of Adam and Eve’s encounter of the snake. Well – I kind of got creative with the reptile here…

Bunny – Brushes painting on iphone

FilipZ — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:56:06 +0000

Only recently I did I find out that you can replay your painting process in iPhone’s brushes using the Brushes Viewer. Once you download the app, you can sit back and watch the “magic” happen again;) How cool is that? Plus you can view it in high speed so it looks like you knew what you were doing all along… Even cooler. As if this is not enough, you can afterwards export that native brushes format as a movie and bore everyone with it. Still cool, right? Especially for the author, I suppose.This one here is a small caricature of certain someone – just for fun. I have the movie, of course I do but the exported version was about 200mb so I’d first need to compress it…

Gotta have a hook – final

FilipZ — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:18:23 +0000

hmm… it looks like I didn’t read the instruction properly… silly boy. To partake in the challenge one had to go through the phases:

Thumbnails
Detailed Sketch
Final

Me, I jumped right onto the last part, slipped in my coloured sketch into the queue and… then I read the full challenge info…

Still. Once you said “a”… this is the final piece.

Gotta have a hook – take 2

FilipZ — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 21:52:24 +0000

Getting there… It hasn’t changed as much since the last version but I now have a better idea where to go with it.

A lot of stuff is still off here but so are my eyes at the minute. I will try to avoid distractions on Friday and I should be all set to finish this off by Saturday. Great fun and some really art going on at the ArtOrder at the minute! Worth checking out! … If you’re into it…

Gotta have a hook Challenge – sketch

FilipZ — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 13:17:18 +0000

I’ve just finished Creative Illustration by Andrew Loomis. What an amazing source of inspiration – I feel like reading it again! I will definitely be coming back to chapters of it as I go as the amount of practical knowledge covered there matches the sheer volume of the spirituARTual lift a erm… young artist like me can expect from the master. I will put up some of Andrew Loomis’s pieces in a later posts…

For now there’s challenge on my mind. Set up by the Great ArtOrder community guru (and Senior Art Director Dungeons & Dragons® Wizards of the Coast) Jon Schindehette.

For those interested: details can be found here. This is my colour sketch and I am planning to meet the 8th August DEADLINE.

and yes, I am taking redoing the whole thing into consideration…;)

Mourning space-trooper – concept

FilipZ — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 20:26:46 +0000

Speedpainting in Photoshop. Around two hours including making a ham sandwich so I guess it can pass as a speedpaint…

I tried to use opaque brushes for most of it. I like them opaque now.

Pretty cool twitter icon

FilipZ — Tue, 25 May 2010 13:05:17 +0000

One more to my downloadable (not yet) twitter birds collection. I will try to upload it tomorrow. I am working on a EPS file so you folks can edit it as the crack doesn’t read so well on the black background. Otherwise it’s almost ready to go.